you are right and he also used that method on his kid(S) if I am not mistaken. amazing!! to say the least. barb Jimashkar@aol.com wrote: > I'd have to look at my old school books (a looong time ago) but I remeber that Skinner is responsible for "conditioned response" and he used some box to hold animals while he was "conditioning" (training) them to respond to a certain stimulus (kind of like Pavlov's dog - bell/salivate). It doesn't seem all that impressive now, but at that time 30's-40's it apparently was cutting edge psychology. I hope I got this right. > regards jwa